The artistic characteristics of late Tang poetry: sad and helpless, delicate and soft. Borrowing the past to satirize the present, feeling dejected and negative.
In the late Tang Dynasty, the social situation took a turn for the worse. Eunuchs were monopolizing power, vassal towns were divided, and the Huangchao Uprising broke out, which eventually brought the Tang Dynasty to collapse. Faced with this situation, most poets were worried about the situation. Life, negativity and pessimism, the focus shifts from society to one's own emotions, and chanting about the love between men and women has become a trend. In terms of artistic style, on the one hand, it inherits the "artificial beauty" poetic style of the Mid-Tang Dynasty, on the other hand, it also values ??innocence, timelessness, and plainness. poetic style. According to the style, it can be roughly divided into five categories: the clear and elegant sentimental style represented by Du Mu and Xu Hun, which pursues the sentimental poetry style with elegant language, ethereal and elegant; the deep and graceful style represented by Li Shangyin and Wen Tingyun, Li Shenwan's implicit style, which is the style of late poetry. Among the most accomplished poets in the Tang Dynasty, Wen opened the Xiangyan school; the reclusive poetry style represented by Sikong Tu and Lu Guimeng; the bitter poetry style represented by Jia Dao and Yao He, with Jia Qi's quiet and quiet music, and Yao's plain and subtle style; Zheng Gu, Wei Zhuang, Luo Yin, Du Xunhe, Pi Rixiu and others represented the style of poetry with sorrow and resentment in troubled times; Zheng Gu, Wei Zhuang and Pi Rixiu were the poets who lamented the troubled times; Luo Yin and Du Xunhe were resentful and ridiculed (note: the Hermit School and The sorrows and resentments of troubled times often intersect with each other and cannot be discussed definitively).